enroll 
He swore consent to your succession, 
His oatti enrolled in the parliament. 
Shale., 8 Hen. VI., 11. I. 
An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the 
hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoy- 
ed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling. Milton. 
3f. To roll ; involve ; wrap. 
Great heapes of them, like sheepe in narrow fold, 
For hast did over-runue, in dust enrould. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. ili. 41. 
To enroll one's self, to place one's name upon a roll or 
list ; enlist as a soldier. 
All the citizens capable of bearing arms enrolled them- 
selves. Prescott. 
= Syn. 1 and 2. Enlist, Register, etc. See record, v. 
enroller (en-ro'ler), n. [Formerly also inroller; 
cf. F. enrdleur.] One who enrolls or registers. 
enrolment, enrollment (en-rol'ment), . [For- 
merly also inrolment; < F. enrdlement, < enrdler, 
enroll: see enroll.'] 1. The act of enrolling; 
specifically, the registering, recording, or en- 
tering of a deed, judgment, recognizance, ac- 
knowledgment, etc., in a court of record. In 
chancery practice a decree, though awarded by the court, 
was not deemed fixed until it had been engrossed on 
parchment and delivered to the proper clerk as a roll of 
the court. 
Hee appointed a generall review to be made, and enrol- 
ment of all Macedonians. Holland, tr. of Livy, p. 1221. 
2. That in which anything is enrolled ; a regis- 
ter ; a roll. 
The king himself caused them to be enrolled, and tes- 
tified by a notary public ; and delivered the enrolments, 
with his own hands, to the bishop of Salisbury. 
Sir J. Dairies, State of Ireland. 
Clerk of enrolments. See clerk. Statute of enrol- 
ment, an English statute of 1535, enacting that no land 
shall pass by bargain and sale unless it be by writing 
sealed, indented, and enrolled. Statute of enrolments. 
See statute. 
enroot (en-rot'), v. t. [< en- 1 + root 1 .] To fix 
by the root; fix fast; implant deep. 
His foes are so enrooted with his friends, 
That, plucking to unfix an enemy, 
He doth unfasten so and shake a friend. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 1. 
enroundt (en-round'), v. t. [< en- 1 + round 1 *.] 
1. To make round; swell. 
And other while an hen wol have the pippe, 
A white pellet that wol the tonge enrounde, 
And softely of[f| wol with thi nnlles slippe. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 22. 
2. To environ ; surround ; inclose. 
Upon his royal face there is no note 
How dread an army hath enrounded him. 
Shak., Hen. V., iv. (cho.). 
en route (on rot). [F. : en, in; route, way, 
route : see route.] On the way ; upon the road. 
ens (enz), . ; pi. entia (en'shi-a). [ML., an ob- 
ject, < L. en(t-)s, ppr. of esse, be (first used, says 
Priscian, by Julius Csesar) ; formed after Gr. uv 
(OVT-); the earlier form *sen(t-)s appears in ab- 
sen(t-)s, E. absent, prw-sen(t-js, E. present. See 
am (under be), and cf. essence.] 1. That which 
in any sense is; an object; something that can 
be named and spoken of. 
Ens has been viewed as the primum cognitum by a 
large proportion, if not the majority of philosophers. 
Sir W. Hamilton, Reid's Works, p. 934. 
To thee, Creator uncreate, 
O I ;m in in Ens ! divinely great. 
M. Green, The Spleen. 
We cannot speak of a thing at all except in terms of 
feeling, cannot imagine an ens except in relation to a sen- 
tiens. G. H. Lewes, Probs. of Life and Mind, II. vi. 13. 
2. The same as first ens (which see, below). 
Johnson. Apparent or Intentional ens, a real but 
unsubstantial appearance, as a rainbow. Complex ens, 
a fact, as that Columbus discovered America. Not to be 
confounded with a composite ens, which is an object com- 
posed of different objects. Dependent ens, that which 
is caused by another : opposed to independent ens. Ens 
Of reason (ens rationis), a product of mental action. Ens 
per accldens, something existing only as an accident of a 
substance, or ens per se. Fictitious ens, a product of 
the inventive imagination. First ens (ens primum), with 
Paracelsus and other old chemists, that which contains 
the virtue of the substance from which it is extracted. 
This liquor, being sealed up in a convenient glass, must 
be exposed to the sun for about six weeks, at the end of 
which time there will swim at the top of it the primum, 
ens of the plant in a liquid form, transparent, and either 
green or red or perhaps of some other colour, according 
to the nature of the plant. 
Boyle, Usefulness of Nat. Phil., ii., Essay 5. 
Imaginary ens, an object of imagination in its widest 
sense. Thus, an object remembered is an imaginary ens. 
Most perfect ens (ens realisrimum), that whose es- 
sence involves all perfections, including existence. 
Being is not a predicate which can be found in the sub- 
ject of any judgment, and if we desire to add it syntheti- 
cally, we must have some third term beyond the idea of 
the subject. Such third term, possible experience, is 
wanting in the case of the Ens Bealissimum, which tran- 
scends experience. Adamson, Philos. of Kant. 
Necessary ens, that the non-existence of which involves 
contradiction, owing to its having been defined as existent. 
1942 
Objective ens, something which exists in the mind, 
but only in so far as it is an object of perception. Posi- 
tive ens, something not a mere privation or negation. 
Real ens, anything whose characters are independent 
of what any person or any number of persons may think 
them to be. Relative or respective ens, something 
which exists only so far as a correlate exists. Subjec- 
tive ens, something which has an existence otherwise than 
merely as an object. 
ensafet (en-saf), v. t. [< en- 1 + safe.] To ren- 
der safe. 
ensaintt, > *. [< en- 1 + saint 1 .] To canonize. 
For his ensainting, looke the almanacke in the begin- 
ning of Aprill, and see if you can find out such a saint as 
Saint Gildarde, which, in honour of this gilded fish, the 
pope so ensainted. 
Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (Harl. Misc., VI. 174). 
ensamet, . t. See ensemrfi, 2. 
ensamef, n. [< ensame, v.] The grease of a 
hawk. 
ensample (en-sam'pl), n. [< ME. ensample, < 
OF. ensample, an alteration, with en- for es-, of 
OF. essample, example : see example.] If. A 
sample or specimen; an instance; a typical 
example. 
Yet better were attonce to let me die, 
And shew the last ensample of your pride. 
Spenser, Sonnets, xxv. 
2. A pattern or model; a guiding example. 
[Archaic and poetical.] 
Ze scholde zeven ensample to the lewed peple, for to do 
wel ; and zee zeven hem ensample to dpu evylle. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 137. 
Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being 
ensamples to the flock. 1 Pet. v. 3. 
And drawing foul ensample from fair names, 
Sinn'd also, till the loathsome opposite 
Of all my heart had destined did obtain, 
And all thro' thee ! Tennyson, Guinevere. 
ensamplet (en-sam'pl), v. t. [< ME. ensam- 
plen; < ensample, n.] To exemplify; show by 
example. 
Homere, who in the Persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses 
hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man. 
Spenser, F. Q. , To the Reader. 
ensanguine (en-sang'gwin), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
ensanguined, ppr. ensanguining. [< en- 1 + san- 
guine (< L. sanguis, blood): see sanguine.] 1. 
To stain or cover with blood ; smear with gore. 
Where cattle pastured late, now scatter'd lies 
With carcases and arms the ensanguined field, 
Deserted. Milton, P. L., xi. 654. 
He answered not, but with a sudden hand 
Made bare his branded and ensanguined brow. 
Shelley, Adonais, xxxiv. 
2. To color like blood ; impart a crimson color 
to. 
In general color they were pink, . . . but the outer 
petals were dashed with a deep carmine, ensanguined, 
brilliant. C. D. Warner, Roundabout Journey, p. 67. 
ensate (en'sat), o. [< NL. ensatm, < L. ensis, 
a sword.] In lot. and zoiil., ensiform: as, the 
ensate ovipositors of certain Orthoptera. 
enscale (en-skal'), t\ t. ; pret. and pp. enscaled, 
ppr. enscaling. [< en- 1 + scale 1 .] To carve or 
form with scales. Clarke. [Rare.] 
enschedule (en-sked'ul), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
enscheduled, ppr. ensclieduling. [< en- 1 + sched- 
ule.] To schedule ; insert in a schedule. 
Our just demands ; 
Whose tenors and particular effects 
You have, enschedul'd briefly, in your hands. 
Shale., Hen. V., v. 2. 
ensconce (en-skons'), 11. t.; pret. and pp. en- 
sconced, ppr. ensconcing. [Formerly also in- 
sconce, inskonse; < en- 1 + sconce.] 1. To cover 
or shelter as with a sconce or fort ; protect ; 
hide securely ; give shelter or security to. 
I with small Boates and 200. men would haue gone to 
the head of the riuer Chawonock, with sufficient guides 
by land, inskonsing my selfe euery two dayes. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's True Travels, I. 88. 
I will ensconce me behind the arras. 
Shale., M. W. of W., ill. 8. 
Convey him to the sanctuary of rebels, 
Nestorius' house, where our proud brother has 
Ensconc'd himself. 
Shirley (and Fletcher ?), Coronation, iv. 1. 
Pedro de yargas, a shrewd, hardy, and vigilant soldier, 
alcayde of Gibraltar, ... lay ensconced in his old warrior 
rock as in a citadel. Irviny, Granada, p. 75. 
Hence 2. To fix firmly or snugly; settle; 
lodge : as, he ensconced himself in his comfort- 
able arm-chair. [Colloq.] 
ensculpture (en-skulp'tur), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
ensculptured, ppr. ensculpturing. [< en- 1 + sculp- 
ture.] To carve; sculpture. [Poetical.] 
Those shapes distinct 
That yet survive ensculptured on the walls 
Of palaces or temples, 'mid the wreck 
Of famed Persepolls. Wordsworth, Apology. 
enseal (en-sel'), v. t. [< ME. enselen, < OF. en- 
seeler, enseler, ensceler, enseller, etc., < ML. insigil- 
ensemble 
lare, enseal, < in, in, + sigillare, seal : see seal%, 
v.] 1. To set one's seal to; ratify formally. 
[Archaic.] 
Syn my fader, in so heigh a place 
As parlement, hath hire eschaunge ensealed. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 559. 
And than he lete write a letter, and it dide ensele with 
his seell. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 617. 
[He]r bul enselyd, concludyng in sentence 
[Th]at none of al thys ordyr ys neuer like to the. 
Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), 1. 84. 
2. To seal up; keep secret. 
Enseled til another day. Chaucer, Troilus, v. 151. 
enseam 1 1, inseamt (en-, in-sem'), v. t. [< en- 1 , 
in- 1 , + seam 1 .] 1. To seam; sew up. 
A name engraved in the revestiary of the temple one 
stole away, and enseamed it in his thigh. Camden. 
2. To gather up; include; comprehend. 
And bounteous Trent, that in him selfe enaeames 
Both thirty sorts of fish and thirty sundry streames. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. xi. 35. 
enseam 2 t(en-sem'),.*. [(en^+seam 3 .] 1. To 
make greasy; befoul with or as if with grease. 
Nay, but to live 
In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed. 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. 
2. To purge from glut and grease : said of a 
hawk. Also ensame. 
enseart (en-ser'), v. t. [< en- 1 + sear 1 .] To 
sear; cauterize. 
Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb. 
Shak., T. of A., Iv. 8. 
ensearcht (en-serch'), v. [< ME. enserchen, 
eneerchen, < OF. encercher, encerchier (= Pr. en- 
sercar, essercar), < en- + cercJter, etc., search: 
see en- 1 and search.] I. trans. To search. 
Another man peraunter, that wolde peynen him and 
travaylle his Body for to go in to tho Marches, for to en- 
cerche tho Contrees, myghten ben blamed be my Wordes, 
in rehercyuge manye straunge thinges. 
ilandeville, Travels, p. 314. 
He that enserchith the derknes of nygt, 
And the myst of the morowtide may se, 
He schal know bi cristis myjt 
If 3outhe kunne synge reuertere. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 93. 
H. intrans. To make a search. 
At whiche tyme as they beganne fyrst to ensearche by 
reason and by reporte of olde menne there about, what 
thing had bene the occasion that so good an haven was in 
so fewe years so sore decayed. Sir T. More, Works, p. 227. 
ensearcht (en-serch'), n. [< ensearch, v.] 
Search; inquiry. 
I pray you make some good ensearch what my poor 
neighbours have lost. 
Sir T. More (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 298). 
enseelt (en-sel'), v. t. [Also ensile; < en- 1 + 
seel&.] To close the eyes of; seel, as a hawk. 
ensegget, v. and n. [ME.] Same as siege. 
enseintt,". An obsolete form of enceinte. Slack- 
stone. 
ensemblet (F. pron. oh-som'bl), adv. [ME. en- 
semble, < OF. ensemble, F. ensemble = Pr. ensems, 
ensemps, essemps = OCat. ensems = OSp. ensem- 
ble = OPg. ensembra = It. insieme, insembre, 
insembra, together, < LL. insimul, at the same 
time, mixed with insemel, at once, < in + simul, 
together, akin to semel, once, both akin to E. 
same, q. v. Cf . assemble, resemble.] Together ; 
all at once ; simultaneously. 
In time togeders we haue be ensemble, 
Where-of of pete my hert doth trimble. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3996. 
ensemble (F. pron. on-som'bl), H. [F., < ensem- 
ble, together: see ensemble, adv.] 1. The union 
of parts in a whole ; all the parts of anything 
taken together, so that each part is considered 
only in relation to the whole ; specifically, the 
general effect of a work of art, piece of music, 
drama, etc. 2. In music, the union of all the 
performers in a concerted composition, as in a 
chorus with full orchestral accompaniment. 
3. In math., a manifold or collection of ele- 
ments, discrete or continuous, finite, infinite, 
or superinfinite. The elements of the ensemble are 
usually termed its points. The integrant parts of an en- 
semble are all the other ensembles whose elements are 
elements of it. Two ensembles whose elements are ca- 
pable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with 
one another are said to have the same value or to be equiv- 
alent. The/rs< value is the smallest infinite value, or that 
of the ensemble of positive whole numbers. A linear en- 
'inb[<' is one whose elements can be brought into corre- 
spondence each with a different point of one line. A de- 
rived enxeinble is one which consists of all the limits of 
elements in a primitive ensemble. An ensemble is said 
to be condensed within a certain interval if there are 
elements of the ensemble in every part of the interval, 
however small. Disconnected I'nsembles are ensembles 
uhich hiive no common clement. A definite I'nxfinble is 
an ensemble such that every object is either determined 
to be an element of it or determined not to be so, and no 
object is determined in both ways. An ordered ensemble 
